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In article <878923529snz@microvest.demon.co.uk>
           tgold@panix.com "Anthony R. Gold" writes:

> I find that when following a crossposted article with a line:
> 
> Newsgroups: ng1,ng2,ng3
> 
> that Snews usually (but not always??) will create an article with:
> 
> Newsgroups: ng1,
>  ng2,
>  ng3
> 
> I believe that this is broken as RFC821 (??or something) only allows 
> splitting a header line at permitted white spaces, and the 
> Newsgroups: line has no permitted white spaces except for the one 
> that is required after the ":".

You may be right about the RFC - I don't have it to hand - but 
I've never known a whitespace after the comma to be a problem.

Indeed it's the way I usually write such lists.  I guess I should 
check and make sure.

> Luckily the Demon mail2news gateway appears to be lax about this 
> requirement. However other gateways are stricter and they will first 
> reconstruct the mail item's line to become:

> Newsgroups: ng1, ng2, ng3

> And then the news server will reject the article for bad format.

Hmm.  Odd.
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